What's going on around here....

We started our second year of homeschool yesterday! Nate is officially in 1st grade and Kyle is in kindergarten. I am excited for a new school year!! It's funny how I was most worried about keeping the younger two occupied, but they have been wonderful! The older two, on the other hand...oh well, let's just say that day 2 was better than day 1. It's probably good that I didn't blog yesterday; it may not have been HAPPY! In pictures.... (By the way, I know that captions are supposed to go UNDER pictures, but it just looks funny for some reason. Therefore, in my blog world, they are going ABOVE the picture!)

Nate writing on the white board...he wasn't pleased with his letters and has basically refused to write since this picture...HE IS SO HARD ON HIMSELF! I am praying for wisdom in this area and am trusting that God will give it to me, as promised in James 1:5!!

Watching our Math U See DVD on the computer and playing with the manipulatives. I LOVED that Kyle put on his swimming goggles...it just gave me joy, made me smile, and made me so excited to homeschool...to be able to witness them learning in their own, comfortable, goggles-on environment! Let's just say I was very glad that we did math last! At least the day ended well and with me smiling!

I wanted to include this picture because of Ian...he didn't take that backpack off ALL DAY! As soon as I said we were starting school-time, on went the "packpack" ...again, finding joy in my children...thank you Jesus!

School time, day two. Today, our preferred classroom was the living room floor!

And here is Ian again with the "packpack." It stayed on all day...what a goof!! He is so sweet when he wants to be! He and Caden colored a lot today, and in this picture he was showing off his work from a Christmas coloring book...go figure!

And in the kitchen, I am currently making my very first chicken stock, using the bones from the whole chicken I cooked yesterday! I put it on before 8am and it will be cooking ALL DAY! It smells yummy!

And also in my kitchen today, is my second attempt at homemade yogurt. I am trying to make a thicker batch using non-instant organic dry milk as a thickener!! Underneath that towel is a little ice chest with HOT water in it and 2 quart-sized jars of yogurt! Hopefully, around 9:30 tonight I will have thicker yogurt! I'll let you know!! (I used a combination of this recipe and this recipe.)

That, in a nutshell, is what's going on around here today!!